Now, Discover Your Strengths : How to Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You Manage

According to management expert, Peter Drucker, most people do not know what their strengths are. "When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer." Drucker captured an enduring and unfortunate truth with this remark: most of us fail to build our lives around our strengths and talents.

Instead, guided by our parents, teachers, managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to paper over these cracks.

Our talents remain in the background, like sundials in the shade.

This audiobook rights our skewed perspective and casts light on each person's unique set of strengths and talents.

Strength shows us how to focus and perfect these strengths.

At the heart of this audiobook is the StrengthFinder Profile, the product of a twenty-five year, multimillion pound effort to identify the most prevalent human talents.

Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with over 2 million individuals - from the world's best teachers to the world's best athletes, from great nurses to great insurance salespeople. When this data was analysed, 34 distinct talents or "themes" were identified.

Strength introduces these themes and, using the StrengthFinder Profile, reveals which of them represents the listener's most dominant strengths, and offers an energising challenge to workers, managers, and executives at every level.